From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 21 6: 0:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.5.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0103437B406 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 06:00:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trini0@optonline.net) Received: from optonline.net (ool-18be012f.dyn.optonline.net [24.190.1.47]) by mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.0 Patch 2 (built Dec 14 2000)) with ESMTP id <0GFA009536SOFA@mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:00:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:00:25 -0400 From: Gerard Samuel Subject: Re: FBSD 4.3 --> The Pits... To: "Christopher W. Aiken" Cc: FreeBSD Questions Message-id: <3B31EFE9.E4C79790@optonline.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en References: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 4.3 Stable, working like a champ here.... {gsam@hivemind}-{~} > uname -a [21 Jun 8:58am] FreeBSD hivemind.lan.trini 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #0: Fri May 18 10:08:55 EDT 2001 root@hivemind.lan.trini:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HIVEMIND i386 {gsam@hivemind}-{~} > uptime [21 Jun 8:58am] 8:59AM up 16 days, 21:48, 1 user, load averages: 1.06, 1.02, 1.00 "Christopher W. Aiken" wrote: > I just got my 4.3CD's in the mail. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not a > newbee nor am I an expert, but 4.3 is the pits compared to previous > versions. I have had the same computer/hardware for three years. I > have installed various flavors of Linux on my system w/o any problems. > I have installed FBSD 3.5/4.0/4.1/4.2 w/o any problems. Now 4.3 is > creating tons of problems. The biggest is constant system freezes > during the install. All total it took me over 8 hours to get 4.3 > installed over a period of 2 days !! A lot of my hardware was not and > is not recognized ( mouse, sound, etc. ). I never ever had any > problems like this with versions 3.5 thru 4.2. I don't know what is > going on but in my opinion 4.3 just went down hill. > > Certain commands don't work either. "top" produces a "no table found" > error. "pkg_add" for windowmaker took 25 minutes!! What a dog. > "pkg_add" for the XFree86 4.0... server actual freezes my system to > the point that nothing short of a "hard reboot" works. > > Tonight I'm going to wipe 4.3 and re-install 4.2. The 4.2 install > should take under 30 minutes, at least that's what it took the last > time. At least I'll have a working system. Maybe my dogs would like > to have my 4.3 "frizbees". > > -- > -=[cwa]=- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message